Well, since I can't be at a million different places at once, which by the way if I had super-powers that's what I would wish for, I stumbled across an infrared motion camera to be my "eye" in the sky while I lie in my warm bed...or sit in another location looking for deer.
This contraption ain't no $5 disposable 35mm camera. This is a 8 megapixel $500 set-up. The first few nights I set it out, I felt like I had just left my rifle, my binoculars, or my son attached to the tree for any curious and hungry bear or sticky-fingered homo sapien to stumble upon.
I set the camera a few feet up a large fir facing an average game trail, nothing too special as far as the amount of animal sign using the trail, just a typical deer trail. When it was time to retrieve the camera, I felt like a kid again, running towards the location like a child towards his stocking on Christmas morning.
Here were the results in a 2 week's time: 44 pics taken, 25 of those pics being bucks...that I could tell. Some of the shots are of a deer's behind or other bits and pieces making it hard to tell if it is a buck, or even a deer. No sasquatch.
I was a bit surprised a super big buck didn't make an appearance; however, this was just one trail in a huge area. Anyways, with no further adieu....here are a few of the shots:
Here is this big stud. Yes, if you look closely, he does sport some antlers. One of only 5 bucks (of 25!)that presented me with a daylight hour shot.
On a trail of a hot doe..
Rakin' a little brush with antlers and glands
Probably past this lil' guy's curfew...
Big ol' heavy 3-point that walked by hours before I picked up my camera!
The end...
2 comments:
That is so cool! If I knew you had it set up, I would've dressed up in a reindeer outfit and ran in front of it...how funny would that be? Heehoo...Too bad you didn't get sasquatch.
I like all those nice shots of bucks. Funny you didn't get a bear.
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